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A rare journey in to the heart and mind of Abraham Lincoln because situations don't make history...people do. Beyond the legend, Abraham is inescapably human, reliving the gauntlet of tragedy and mistreatment which should have used him, revealing his private reasons for standing company on the brink of conflict. Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his dad drags their family from the comparative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While enduring rebuke for educating himself to read and write, Abraham endures gossips of illegitimate labor and birth, escapes death a half dozen times, labors to settle his father's debt, and grieves the deaths of his toddler brother, angel mom, valuable sister, and beloved sweetheart. By his early 30s, he casts off his parents' religion, becomes estranged from his closest friend, and loses beliefs in his own figure when he breaks an engagement to marry a female he doesn't love. He spirals into life-threatening major depression. In the primary of life, unable to keep a pledge made to his dying mom to become someone special, he wrestles with self-doubt, abandons politics, and resigns himself to a life of mediocrity. However when his longtime competitor opens the door for slavery's extension across half the world, Lincoln faces the greatest task of his life - his cherished country has been ripped apart. Grounded in historical record, the story is enriched by insights gleaned from the works of visible Lincoln biographers: Harold Holzer, Michael Burlingame, Douglas Wilson, Allen Guelzo, and Joshua Shenk, to credit a few.
